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Three female stars of The Inbetweeners Movie have signed up to star in a new sitcom about girls who are working dead-end jobs after graduating.

Jessica Knappett has penned the sitcom (Picture: Getty)

The writing team behind The Inbetweeners has thrown its weight behind Drifters, the comedy penned by Jessica Knappett, who will also star in the show.

Knappett played a clubber in the popular movie incarnation of the hit British sitcom alongside Lydia Rose Bewley, who will also take on the role of one of the Drifters.

The new show will see the pair team up with Lauren O’Rourke, who starred as Nicole, the girlfriend of Inbetweener Neil.

The three are set to play friends Laura, Bunny and Meg, who all find themselves working in menial jobs in Leeds upon graduating from university and trying to work out what they want to do as a career.

All three girls starred in last years hugely successful The Inbetweeners Movie

Drifters has been picked up by Channel 4 and Bob Mortimer has signed on to play Meg’s father Frank.A Channel 4 spokesman said: ‘Drifters features three twentysomething women having their first experience of the real world — making terrible decisions, but having a brilliant time doing it.’Executive Producer Iain Morris, who co-wrote The Inbetweeners, added: ‘We’re delighted to be involved with Jess’s sitcom. She is hysterically funny.’